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Beijing, Oct 6 (IANS) Apple fans in China were grief-stricken Thursday on learning about Steve Jobs’ death. ‘I was really shocked when I woke up and heard the news in the morning. It is like a giant star falling from the sky,’ microblogger ‘Wei Jinhuan’ said on Sina Weibo, the largest microblogging website in China. ‘His creativity and imagination had [...]
This is the ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish’ address delivered by Steve Jobs in 2005 at Stanford University: I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to [...]
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940–2011): Nobel Peace Laureate; environmentalist; scientist; parliamentarian; founder of the Green Belt Movement; advocate for social justice, human rights, and democracy; elder; and peacemaker. She lived and worked in Nairobi, Kenya. “Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is [...]
Lot has already been written on Anna Hazare’s fast both for and against but more for than against. Why then need for another article? Every article has a perspective and I have mine on and also each article for or against throws light on some new facts not covered by earlier ones. I had written earlier also from Gandhian perspective [...]
The 142nd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2 will be a very special day for 10 students of University of Mumbai (MU), who will celebrate Gandhi Jayanti in South Africa and discuss the Gandhi’s relevance in today’s world. The students of JBIMS, Welingkar, Sydenham Institute of Management and Amity Business School, along with three professors, have reached Pretoria [...]
Washington, Sep 29 (IANS) If committing a faux pas in public or mistaking an overweight woman for a prospective mother leaves you red-faced, don’t feel bad. A new study suggests that people who are easily embarrassed are also more trustworthy and more generous. In short, embarrassment can be a good thing. ‘Embarrassment is one emotional signature of a person to [...]
Washington, Sep 28 (IANS) When the going gets tough, people prefer a dominant power-hungry guy to lead them, rather than someone good or respectable, researchers say. Respectable people may be perceived as desirable leaders in peaceful contexts, but they are viewed as submissive when compared to their more self-seeking peers, who can handle conflicts. ‘People with high prestige are often [...]
Lata Mangeshkar, the music legend who continues to mesmerise millions with her golden voice in a career spanning over seven decades, turned 82 today. The Nightingale of India, who has around 30,000 songs to her credit, has decided to spend a quiet birthday with her family and attend an award function later in the day. “I do not celebrate my [...]
London, Sep 23 (IANS) Elders can make better decisions than those who are younger, a study claims. The study found that adults aged 60 and over were better at strategising their decisions than those in their late teens and early 20s, Daily Mail reported Friday. The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University researchers said their study goes [...]
London, Sep 15 (IANS) Harbouring an inflated belief that we can easily overcome challenges or win battles actually works to our advantage. Overconfidence beats accurate assessments in a variety of situations, be it sport, business or even war, a new study says. But this bold approach could also wreck an ever-greater havoc. Take the 2008 financial crash and the 2003 [...]
London, Sep 9 (IANS) Our good deeds can help us live longer, but for that to happen our acts should be driven by a sense of helping others than doing something for personal satisfaction, a study has found. The US study followed a random group of 10,317 college students since their graduation in 1957. In 2004, they were asked about [...]
RAM SHARAN SHARMA (b September 1, 1920) passed away at Patna on August 19, 2011, and with his death, the entire community of Indian historians has lost perhaps its most eminent figure. Sharma’s contributions to ancient and early medieval history covered an entire range of aspects, in the study of many of which he was an undoubted pioneer. RS, as he [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan says “Parliament is supreme”. His senior ministerial colleague and constitutional lawyer Kapil Sibal says civil society is nobody to dictate the Parliament and Parliament alone has power to make law. Several Corrupt public servants in high places were neither investigated nor arrested until the Supreme Court has directed the Executive with harsh words. But, a morally rich [...]
With brains and a heart. It is easy to talk at length about Mr Narayana Murthy’s simplicity, his spartan life style, his down-to-earth qualities and the influence of his values on the company that he founded. His phenomenal success over the years had no impact on him as a person. Even today, when he has become a global brand, he [...]
The secular character of Hindustani music is best represented in Dagar bani. The senior most exponent of Dagar bani, Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar passed away on July 27, leaving behind a tradition of music that espouses spirituality, erudition and art—that his disciples yearn to keep alive. Dagarsaheb’s students are scholars, teachers, musicians- devoted to the preservation of the Dhrupad [...]
Ramaswami Venkataraman contributed to the strengthening of the institutions of our republic. He was a practitioner of virtue in the classical sense, a stickler for propriety and decency, for doing what was right in accordance with his conscience and convictions. He believed that incumbency of public office necessitated decision making, and that doing right was more important than catering to [...]
We are living in the midst of a mess, a muddle, melancholy and extended political chicanery. Hence, I am leaving this cesspool and writing about the lesser known side of Jawaharlal Nehru. On the night of his departure to China on August 22, 1939, Mr Nehru had an unexpected and hilarious sartorial disaster in the early morning. “When I put [...]
A news story during the recently concluded T-20 Cricket semi-finals saying that National Anthems of the three of the four teams have Rabindranath Tagore’s stamp clearly indicates that his works and life have immensely influenced the lives of millions in the subcontinent and the legacy continues. Pursuing career as a writer, playwright, songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator he exemplified the ideals of Goodness, [...]
One of the outstanding examples of the creative genius of India is Swami Vivekananda, whose life is a saga of spiritual fervour, patriotism, universal outlook and philosophic attainments of a very high order. In a short life span of thirty nine years he accomplished more than what could be achieved in an entire lifetime. His contributions are truly manifold, affording [...]
Shri Jairam Ramesh is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha. Prior to his new assignment, he was holding charge as the Minister Of State (independent charge) in the Ministry Of Environment and Forests in UPA-II. Shri Jairam Ramesh has also worked as the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry as well [...]
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